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Contents:

• BOY BAND MEMBERS WHO ARE OUT AS GAY, BISEXUAL OR QUEER
• AMERI’S GOT TALENT DNS “THE WORLD’S GAYT BOY BAND”
• AMERI’S FIRST ALL OPENLY GAY BOY BAND RELEASE DEBUT SGLE

BOY BAND MEMBERS WHO ARE OUT AS GAY, BISEXUAL OR QUEER

The mastream populary of boy bands wtern mic almost ensur that one or two members of each group intifi as gay, bisexual or queer. Most out gay boy band members talk about their early reer days of havg dual personas - the public heterosexual teen male, and the private gay dividual - creatg an thenticy paradox. There have been sporadic attempts to create succsful all-gay boy bands to ter to the LGBTQ dance club crowd.

AMERI’S GOT TALENT DNS “THE WORLD’S GAYT BOY BAND”

Neverthels, there is a group of notable boy band members who publicly intify as gay, bisexual or queer. This week on Ameri’s Got Talent, jt time for Pri Month, Cowell and his fellow judg dned The Other Directn, a group that bills self as “the world’s gayt boy band. “We ma a pact that when we turned 21, we would e together and form the world’s gayt boy band, and here we are!

An spirg gay pelin uple has stayed together for nearly two s. For as long there have been boy bands, there have been gay or bisexual boy band members. Sger Dunn Jam, who has a dghter wh an ex-girliend, first me out as bisexual 2009 but later clarified that he is gay, acknowledgg a Brish TV documentary that he had a three-year relatnship wh one of Blue's hunky male backup dancers.

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AMERI’S FIRST ALL OPENLY GAY BOY BAND RELEASE DEBUT SGLE

By all outward appearanc, they seem to be the typil boy band wh good looks, lh harmoni and killer choreography, but they have one important difference: they’re all gay. Part of what the boys of Echo V are hopg to break is the stereotype that beg an out, gay mician is a nail the ff of an artist’s reer. And we were like, let's jt make a tracklist of our songs that we're gog to put and we ma a tracklist of like 50 different songs wh jt ridiculo tl that we will never e but that was, kd of the genis of Then we moved, when we got back om London, we moved to hell's kchen, which is like a gayborhood the cy.

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